I am more likely to make diversions to snack on bon-bons, play whatever, and jerk off to porn. Sometimes, the structure of actually "going to work" is needed sometimes. Probably depends on the person -- just my two cents.
Absolutely varies per person. The fact that I can take a jerk off break at home means I can focus on my work instead of daydreaming about the hot chick in accounting all afternoon.
..you must be lolling about, eating bon-bons and playing Angry Birds.
No, they think your posting to slashdot.
Classical case of false metrics. For practical business purposes, you should be measured on what you're actually getting done, not on what you might be doing alongside of it. I mean people do that kind of stuff in the office, too, you know. At the end of the day, the question is, did the job get done?
^^THIS
Most weeks I telecommute two days and go to the office the other three. We have a strong "get the job done, the rest is window dressing" philosophy. One of the things I tell my new hires early on goes something like this:
"I don't need to walk past your desk and see you working non-stop for 8 hours. I don't expect it to happen. If I walk past you and you're checking some news site or playing minesweeper or freecell or whatever it is you do to pass time, I don't care. At the end of the week, I know if you're getting the job done. I know if you've completed all your assignments or have good reasons for not having finished. I know which projects you've asked for more details or clarification about, and that tells me all I need to know. I don't care how or when you're getting it done, so long as you're getting it done."
The stars were created on the 4'th day of creation, about 3 days after the Earth itself. Hence if Earth is no older than 6000 years, the stars themselves cannot be older than 6000 years. Any light we receive today CANNOT have started more than 6000 years ago. Hence, If the speed of light didn't change, everything we see must be within a 6000 light year radius.
I think you're rigorously applying the laws of physics to a supernatural being. Mind you I don't accept at all the idea that the universe is 6k years old, but if we start at the assumption that it was created 6k years ago by an entity capable of such a feat, it's hardly a stretch to think the same entity created all the stars with light already having radiated outwards so that distant stars could be visible right away. Seems sort of silly to bother creating stars otherwise.
the reason we got Xmas on 25 December was because a 3rd century lemming added generations with such amazing accuracy as to get precision down to the day between Jesus's birth and the creation of Earth, which had already been postulated by Philo to have happened on a spring equinox.
That's actually a new one for me. There are two reasons I've generally heard for why Xmas is Dec 25:
1. That's actually his birthday. Not my favorite theory, but it's not out of the question. 2. Usurpation of pagan winter solstice festivals such as Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, etc.
Excellent post for the most part, but this caught my eye:
And that dude who actually believes that the universe is less than 6000 years old and less than 6000 light years across, because the bible says so.
Does the bible actually limit the universe to 6000 light years across? I understand that it would be a natural consequence of a 6k year old universe created by a big bang, but I'm not aware of any biblical limitations on how far apart God is supposed to have created everything.
As for the cable, that would have been vastly preferable, and is also what I had believed would be installed. Of course, after the fact they tell me that there's no way to do that with the player I have.
I was thinking of the DVD player in my minivan. It's one of those devices that broadcasts on at some FM frequency and I have to tune the car radio to it. It's pretty much unusable any time I pass through NYC, which, since I live on Long Island, is basically any road trip long enough to bother with putting a DVD on.
My concern is the overwhelming willingness to be treated unlawfully so as to avoid the consequences, and yet so little consideration is given to the consequences of allowing society as a whole to be consistently treated unlawfully.
It's called 'cowardess' for a reason.
I think in this PC era we call both the male and female versions "coward".
For someone who pretends to know so much, I'm surprised you don't know that originally there were ten months: Dec{imal,ember). December, according to its name is supposed to be the tenth month.
Correct
But thanks to some caesar named Augustus we have one extra. I'll leave the origin of the other added month as an exercise for you.
Often repeated, but not correct. There had been twelve months long before Augustus was born.
And in early Roman times the year used to start in March, closer to the Vernal equinox,
And back to correct.
They originally had 10 months of roughly 30 days each, plus a period called 'winter' that was just kind of there to fill in the rest of it. Some time around 700BC give or take (pre-Republic, still during the Monarchy) 'winter' was converted to the months of January and February, which were added to the beginning of the year.
The months of July and August were always there, they were simply renamed from what in English would be Quintember and Sextember.
... claims that four million Facebook business account holders, including at least three major presidential candidates, are guilty of infringing his patent. He's suing Facebook for infringing on his patent as well as the three candidates.
This particular usage is simply saying that they are referring to the same three candidates that were mentioned in the previous sentence, not that they're necessarily more legit than any other candidates or anything like that.
OK, most people think they are above median drivers. But are really bad at statistics.
Not necessarily. They can have a perfect understanding of statistics and just be piss poor at self evaluation. Though personal observation of the world at large suggests you're right.
My personal belief is that if you had an objective system to measure driving skill, most people would fall into a fairly tight range that I would call 'normal'. A very small group would be above that range and could be considered 'exceptional'. Another small (but not as small) group would be far below that range and could be considered 'poor'. The rough definition I've used is that a bad driver is someone who surprises other drivers, a good driver is predictable. There are of course always exceptions, but it seems to work as a general rule. Damned hard to quantify though, but assuming you could, then it comes down to how you define average.
The mean would fall either below the normal group or at the bottom end of the normal group. --- most drivers are above average The median would be very slightly below the center of the normal group. ---- about even The mode would be somewhere in the normal group. --- dunno
You've left quite a bit to work with but I'll focus on this:
Most people think they're "above average" drivers. Any trucker will tell you how few driver actually are above average, and it has less to do with reflexes and more to do with courtesy.
10 people take a test. They score: 100 98 96 96 96 94 91 90 88 15
The average there is 86.4. Remarkably, almost everyone scored above average.
You can buy them yourself. The good one cost about $200 - 300 and you have to pay for access to the data to be sent to you and/or access to the mashup where the data is plotted on Google maps. Don't ask why I know about this stuff...
Why do you know about this stuff?
That's my automatic reaction when someone tells me not to ask them something. I get an answer more often than not.
Bullets staying in orbit without someone deliberately trying to make that happen seems unlikely to me. They'll need to be launched at a fair velocity to be of any use, so they're likely to be able to escape orbit to begin with. Plus, combat while in orbit would probably be the exception rather than the rule.
I'm kind of curious where the impetus for this is coming from. Is Arizona suffering from a rash of swearing teachers? Are children all across the state going home and saying "Hey Mommy, my English teacher said the guy she picked up in the bar last night fucked her good, and we were all like 'No Ms. Jones, he fucked you well!"
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I am more likely to make diversions to snack on bon-bons, play whatever, and jerk off to porn. Sometimes, the structure of actually "going to work" is needed sometimes. Probably depends on the person -- just my two cents.
Absolutely varies per person. The fact that I can take a jerk off break at home means I can focus on my work instead of daydreaming about the hot chick in accounting all afternoon.
No, they think your posting to slashdot.
Classical case of false metrics. For practical business purposes, you should be measured on what you're actually getting done, not on what you might be doing alongside of it. I mean people do that kind of stuff in the office, too, you know. At the end of the day, the question is, did the job get done?
^^THIS
Most weeks I telecommute two days and go to the office the other three. We have a strong "get the job done, the rest is window dressing" philosophy. One of the things I tell my new hires early on goes something like this:
"I don't need to walk past your desk and see you working non-stop for 8 hours. I don't expect it to happen. If I walk past you and you're checking some news site or playing minesweeper or freecell or whatever it is you do to pass time, I don't care. At the end of the week, I know if you're getting the job done. I know if you've completed all your assignments or have good reasons for not having finished. I know which projects you've asked for more details or clarification about, and that tells me all I need to know. I don't care how or when you're getting it done, so long as you're getting it done."
The stars were created on the 4'th day of creation, about 3 days after the Earth itself. Hence if Earth is no older than 6000 years, the stars themselves cannot be older than 6000 years. Any light we receive today CANNOT have started more than 6000 years ago. Hence, If the speed of light didn't change, everything we see must be within a 6000 light year radius.
I think you're rigorously applying the laws of physics to a supernatural being. Mind you I don't accept at all the idea that the universe is 6k years old, but if we start at the assumption that it was created 6k years ago by an entity capable of such a feat, it's hardly a stretch to think the same entity created all the stars with light already having radiated outwards so that distant stars could be visible right away. Seems sort of silly to bother creating stars otherwise.
the reason we got Xmas on 25 December was because a 3rd century lemming added generations with such amazing accuracy as to get precision down to the day between Jesus's birth and the creation of Earth, which had already been postulated by Philo to have happened on a spring equinox.
That's actually a new one for me. There are two reasons I've generally heard for why Xmas is Dec 25:
1. That's actually his birthday. Not my favorite theory, but it's not out of the question.
2. Usurpation of pagan winter solstice festivals such as Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, etc.
Excellent post for the most part, but this caught my eye:
And that dude who actually believes that the universe is less than 6000 years old and less than 6000 light years across, because the bible says so.
Does the bible actually limit the universe to 6000 light years across? I understand that it would be a natural consequence of a 6k year old universe created by a big bang, but I'm not aware of any biblical limitations on how far apart God is supposed to have created everything.
Fair enough. That certainly reduces the likelihood of my theory.
Yeah, my first thought was that maybe his site causes IE to crash sometimes, which would look like an abandoned game.
Ah. That's unfortunate then.
As for the cable, that would have been vastly preferable, and is also what I had believed would be installed. Of course, after the fact they tell me that there's no way to do that with the player I have.
I was thinking of the DVD player in my minivan. It's one of those devices that broadcasts on at some FM frequency and I have to tune the car radio to it. It's pretty much unusable any time I pass through NYC, which, since I live on Long Island, is basically any road trip long enough to bother with putting a DVD on.
Or, as Jay-Z once poetically put it, "If you got penis joint problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but a penis joint ain't one."
First thought through my head was "Isn't it illegal to grow joints?"
My concern is the overwhelming willingness to be treated unlawfully so as to avoid the consequences, and yet so little consideration is given to the consequences of allowing society as a whole to be consistently treated unlawfully.
It's called 'cowardess' for a reason.
I think in this PC era we call both the male and female versions "coward".
You jump back and forth between wrong and right.
For someone who pretends to know so much, I'm surprised you don't know that originally there were ten months: Dec{imal,ember). December, according to its name is supposed to be the tenth month.
Correct
But thanks to some caesar named Augustus we have one extra. I'll leave the origin of the other added month as an exercise for you.
Often repeated, but not correct. There had been twelve months long before Augustus was born.
And in early Roman times the year used to start in March, closer to the Vernal equinox,
And back to correct.
They originally had 10 months of roughly 30 days each, plus a period called 'winter' that was just kind of there to fill in the rest of it. Some time around 700BC give or take (pre-Republic, still during the Monarchy) 'winter' was converted to the months of January and February, which were added to the beginning of the year.
The months of July and August were always there, they were simply renamed from what in English would be Quintember and Sextember.
From the summary:
... claims that four million Facebook business account holders, including at least three major presidential candidates, are guilty of infringing his patent. He's suing Facebook for infringing on his patent as well as the three candidates.
This particular usage is simply saying that they are referring to the same three candidates that were mentioned in the previous sentence, not that they're necessarily more legit than any other candidates or anything like that.
OK, most people think they are above median drivers. But are really bad at statistics.
Not necessarily. They can have a perfect understanding of statistics and just be piss poor at self evaluation. Though personal observation of the world at large suggests you're right.
Yes. Average is an imprecise word.
My personal belief is that if you had an objective system to measure driving skill, most people would fall into a fairly tight range that I would call 'normal'. A very small group would be above that range and could be considered 'exceptional'. Another small (but not as small) group would be far below that range and could be considered 'poor'. The rough definition I've used is that a bad driver is someone who surprises other drivers, a good driver is predictable. There are of course always exceptions, but it seems to work as a general rule. Damned hard to quantify though, but assuming you could, then it comes down to how you define average.
The mean would fall either below the normal group or at the bottom end of the normal group. --- most drivers are above average
The median would be very slightly below the center of the normal group. ---- about even
The mode would be somewhere in the normal group. --- dunno
The rich are more likely to cheat,
Those sons of bitches.
steal,
Really, quite uncivil of them.
and even disobey traffic laws
Well NOW they've gone too far dammit!
You've left quite a bit to work with but I'll focus on this:
Most people think they're "above average" drivers. Any trucker will tell you how few driver actually are above average, and it has less to do with reflexes and more to do with courtesy.
10 people take a test. They score:
100
98
96
96
96
94
91
90
88
15
The average there is 86.4. Remarkably, almost everyone scored above average.
Together, the four fiber-optic cables channel thousands of gigabytes of information per second
They're called petabytes.
Petabytes would be millions of gigabytes. For this one we go with terabytes.
nicely done.
I have 5 arms
Now THAT'S a bold-faced lie.
You can buy them yourself. The good one cost about $200 - 300 and you have to pay for access to the data to be sent to you and/or access to the mashup where the data is plotted on Google maps. Don't ask why I know about this stuff...
Why do you know about this stuff?
That's my automatic reaction when someone tells me not to ask them something. I get an answer more often than not.
Bullets staying in orbit without someone deliberately trying to make that happen seems unlikely to me. They'll need to be launched at a fair velocity to be of any use, so they're likely to be able to escape orbit to begin with. Plus, combat while in orbit would probably be the exception rather than the rule.
I'm kind of curious where the impetus for this is coming from. Is Arizona suffering from a rash of swearing teachers? Are children all across the state going home and saying "Hey Mommy, my English teacher said the guy she picked up in the bar last night fucked her good, and we were all like 'No Ms. Jones, he fucked you well!"
My wife's brother is the same way, and then gets all pissy when we tell him to stop doing it around the kids.
I've said 'fuck' now and then in the office, but I'd say it's infrequent, as in less than once a day most of the time.
It's geek porn and you love it.